Modern Dance

 

Activity

(Housekeeping)

Create Groups of three for Final Presentations.

Choose the theme for your presentation.

Decide which day you are going to present.

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 Today's Class

Questions

1. Write a short bio of each one of the dancers listed below.

2. Notice that they are grouped in clusters. Explain the relationship of them in each cluster.

 

European Precursors

• Rudolph Laban
• Mary Wigman
• Harald Kreutzberg
  

 

American Precursors in Europe

• Loie Fuller
• Isadora Duncan 

Founders of the First School of Modern Dance

•  Ruth St. Dennis
• Ted Shawn

 

Modern Dance Pioneers

• Charles Weidman
• Doris Humphrey
• Martha Graham

 

• Jose Limon
• Lester Horton
• Catherine Dunham